Russia will find it hardest to replace imports of soybean, corn, and beet seeds

Maize (Corn) Seed

Fresh Beetroot

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Published Jun 18, 2022

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Russia is actively developing domestic seed production, the most difficult thing will be to replace the import of soybeans, corn, and beets, Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti at SPIEF. According to her, the seed industry is now "somewhere good, somewhere not very good." "Soybean, corn, the third - beets," - she said, answering the question, of which crops will have to spend the most time on import substitution.

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Russia is actively developing domestic seed production, the most difficult thing will be to replace the import of soybeans, corn and beets, Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti at SPIEF. According to her, the seed industry is now "somewhere good, somewhere not very good." "Soybean, corn, the third - beets," - she said, answering the question, which crops will have to spend the most time on import substitution. At the same time, according to her, Russia has already managed to achieve some success in import substitution of beets. “There are also certain successes in beetroot. But beetroot is a two-year-old crop, and in order to make domestic hybrid varieties, we need two years from today. And in order to run faster, we had to choose business partners, those who stretches out her hand and says: I am ready to take responsibility and deal with seeds for this crop. And so we have selected such business partners," she explained. At the same ...

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